Jules Verne > Quotes

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
― Jules Verne

“I say, you do have a heart!'

Sometimes,' he replied. 'When I have the time.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days and 5 Weeks in a Balloon

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
― Jules Verne

“On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man”
― Jules Verne

“It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“If there were no thunder, men would have liitle fear of lightning.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“The sea is only the embodiment of a
supernatural and wonderful existence.
It is nothing but love and emotion;
it is the ‘Living Infinite...”
― Jules Verne

“Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?”
― Jules Verne

“Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Mobilis in Mobile”
― Jules Verne

“I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.”
― Jules Verne, Around The World In 80 Days, From The Earth To The Moon Direct, 200, 000 Leagues Under The Sea

“What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.”
― Jules Verne

“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.”
― Jules Verne

“On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.”
― Jules Verne

“So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!"

My over-excitement was beyond all description.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,...”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“To the sheepfold!”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“What one man can think, another man can do.”
― Jules Verne

“It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“O homem que nasceu para ir à forca, jamais morrerá afogado!”
― Jules Verne

“Basta! Quando a ciência se manifesta, não há outra coisa senão calar-se.”
― Jules Verne

“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.”
― Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon

“He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“Look with all your eyes, look.”
― Jules Verne

“At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“What you do for money you do badly.”
― Jules Verne, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

“The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!"
"And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“Man is never perfect, nor contended.”
― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island